by Noel | Nov 24, 2017 | CobraHead, Garden Tools, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
I try to plant garlic by the end of October. This year it didn’t happen. Having great faith in climate change, I knew I would get another opportunity or several before the ground froze too hard to work easily. Today the high temperature peaked at around 66 F and it was a quite pleasant day for planting, a very good way to spend Black Friday. I plant garlic in ridges, three per bed. I work up the soil in a bed until it is soft. The ideal tool for this is an...
by Noel | Nov 13, 2017 | CobraHead, Gardening, Recipes, Vegetable Growing
I prepared horseradish sauce yesterday. I ran the horseradish twice through a food processor, first slicing, then shredding the pieces of root. As I was shredding, I added enough vinegar to keep the horseradish from drying out or heating up. The vinegar helps retain the hot flavor and allows it to keep for a while in the refrigerator. It will last a couple months. It’s a tasty condiment and it has an impressive list of purported health benefits. I grow...
by Judy | Nov 9, 2017 | CobraHead, Recipes
This year was not particularly good for our pepper harvest. It may have been the location and the fact that the ever so tall Jerusalem artichokes blocked the east sun from the patch. That won’t happen next year. Live and learn. Luckily we had a late frost so when Noel pulled the last of the pepper plants from the garden on October 30th, we had a bonus – a couple dozen shishito peppers. We had never grown them before so I thought they were immature...
